CrowdRender needs support to stay afloat
CrowdRender is an awesome add-on for network rendering (currently I think the best one at least for single frame renders).
Since its beginning a few years ago, it hasn't gotten much financial support from its users but last week, its developers have been asking for urgent help on their crowdfunding goal, which, if not met, require them to stop developing it (which would be bad news for people like me).
Remember : no matter what happens, this add-on will become open source, though obviously no one can keep its development going as actively as the current team does and there’s no certainty anyone would take back the project if the main team left it.
Even if this add-on is not useful to you right now, it may be for your future projects, so I encourage you to give it some thought. Donating as little as a 4$ per month can save it, if enough people do it :
I use this add-on for my job and could not do it nearly as efficiently any other way. Online renderfarms are simply not an option for me and any other network rendering tool that still works doesn't do it nearly as well as CrowdRender.
Feel free to ask me about it and thank you for your attention.
Happy blending ( ´◔‿ゝ◔`)
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We're now a little over 1/3 of the way to our required monthly donations to keep us going!! Thanks everyone, we've got hope now that we didn't have before. Its really motivating us to dig in and keep on developing. There's so much more we have to show you all that we're super excited about!! Woo!
So grateful for you posting about us!! Thanks, really, thanks so much! Also we think its working, we're nearly a third of the way towards our target now!! Its given us hope that our project can be sustainable.
Its also been so great to know that our addon is useful too. We get a lot of requests for help, so to hear your story has been so refreshing.